Alexandria Daily Advertiser

A gentleman in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, writes as follows to his correspondent in New York:

"On my way to this place through the Jersey and the lower part of this state, I learned that the country had suffered very much from want of rain: A respectable friend at Burlington assured me that in the course of seven weeks no shower, excepting one, had fallen sufficient to wet the earth to the depth of an inch. The consequence is, as was obvious to my own observation in passing, that the grass is in many places completely scorched, and the corn so stunted as to promise only a very scanty crop; the early grains, however, have universally furnished an excellent harvest. Within the last eight days this part of the country has been refreshed with repeated rains, so that the face of nature has again assumed the verdant appearance of spring.

The tide of politics, I find, runs very high in Pennsylvania. Nothing almost is heard here but the merits and defects of the Constitution, and of M'Kean and Snyder; the candidates for the office of governor. Friends of the people and friends of the constitution; constitutional republicans and democratic republicans; clod-hoppers and tertium quids, are some of the epithets which distinguish the opposing parties. The Federalists decline taking any active measures in the contest; but any of them I have heard speak on the subject sincerely wish, as every friend to order and tranquility will wish, the preservation of the constitution, and for this purpose, the re-election of M'Kean. The Aurora which has so long shone with a pure and steady lustre! is, I find, fast losing its popularity. Those who but lately were its determined patrons, convinced that Duane is a "political scoundrel," are now denouncing it with the same eagerness they formerly applauded it: and should M'Kean succeed it is more than probable that the modest and immaculate editor will be fairly abandoned."

We frequently observe it said in the democratic papers, that the Federalists are certainly in favor of monarchy, because some of them ridicule republicanism. But it should be considered that it is the Democrats republicanism which they laugh at; and that is no more like genuine republicanism, than the Imperial constitution of France, is like the Federal constitution of America.

[Palladium.]